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- Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) and the position of Associate Professor at the School of Human Sciences of Osaka University. He previously held the position of Assistant Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University from 2018 to 2021. He is member of the Steering Committee on (Anti-)Corruption and Integrity of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). His research activities focus on (anti-)corruption, public integrity, and social norms. He is the editor of The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America, published by Routledge in 2021; as well as the author of various peer-reviewed papers in international academic journals. He currently leads the project “Multidimensional measurement of corruption in Southeast Asia and Latin America,” funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) program, and is co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice. He was also the co-creator of the ACE Digital Library, an online database of corruption literature hosted by the NGO Global Integrity. Additionally, he served as Consultant in the Western Hemisphere Anti-Corruption Index projects developed by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2021-23, with the goal of quantifying the levels of corruption and policy implementation of international anti-corruption conventions across Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Andrew de Castro is a lawyer, currently based in Japan advising on renewable energy with particular focus on geothermal energy development. Previously, he was in public service having served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor for the Office of the Ombudsman and more recently as Commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), where he led the Commission’s search for the ill-gotten wealth of Ferdinand Marcos, his family and their cronies, including stolen art work, jewelry worth and other assets. He has prosecuted high-ranking government officials on corruption charges and advised and managed integrity-building initiatives in the Department of Finance, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Civil Service Commission and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He managed various international development programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), from judicial reform, integrity and governance for Deloitte Consulting and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI). He was also a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) where he advised on wildlife crime enforcement. He has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree on International and Economic Business Law from Kyushu University in Japan, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Ateneo de Manila University where he also received his Bachelors Degree in Psychology. He was a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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